An Ottawa city councillor wants fences built in the Colonel By underpass, near the Rideau Centre, to discourage street youth from hanging out and in turn make the area safer.
City hall’s 2008 draft budget was tabled last week, and with it comes the all-too familiar debate between tax hikes and service cuts – a debate Mayor Larry O’Brien calls a “philosophical divide” that will shape the future of the city.
After years of minor improvements, Piazza Dante Park, at the corner of Booth and Gladstone, finally has a redevelopment plan that will bring the space alive with history and culture.
A decades-long battle to unseal Ontario adoption records will continue in the province amidst a recent decision taken by the Ontario Superior Court to overturn legislation that would open adoption records for adoptees and their birth parents.
Reports from undercover “spies” riding OC Transpo say that despite improvements only one in about every three drivers are calling out compulsory stop announcements following orders earlier this year.
You do not have to be a horticulturalist to notice the dark spots found on many fallen maple tree leaves. According to Richard Wilson, a researcher in forest pathology, these dark splotches are known as Rhytisma-Accerium or commonly tar-spots.